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Hampton University basketball players had barely settled into their seats and turned their attention to the projection screen TV in the student center ballroom when they learned their NCAA destination. The 16th-seeded Pirates will face Manhattan on Tuesday (6:40 p.m.) in a first-round game in Dayton, Ohio, with the winner getting No. 1-ranked and unbeaten Kentucky on Thursday in Louisville. "I'm just excited," guard Brian Darden said. "First of all, the fact of seeing our name pop up on that screen and that we're playing in the NCAA tournament is a tremendous thing. Really, I was just excited. It didn't really matter who we played. I'm just glad to be...

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